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The Barrier: Moving Your Date from Cyberspace to Real Space

Filed in archive Dating Issues on May 10, 2010

The Barrier: Moving Your Date from Cyberspace to Real Space
© Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged

The biggest single barrier in online dating is the Internet.

Think about your experience in the past... You find a profile you like. You message the person. They message you back. You exchange a few emails or messages. He or she gives you their cell number. You talk a couple of times. It seems to drag on for a time. You start to talk about actually meeting (you know, physically - in the real world). That discussion drags on (even though he or she seemed warm to the idea. There are some reasons (or excuses) as to why now is not a good time (my goldfish just died and I have to make arrangements with the pet cemetery). Pretty soon the phone calls, emails and messages dry up and your back to looking at profiles...

Cheryl-Anne Jenkinson has a piece that takes a look at some of the reasons why breaking through that barrier is hard. It's worth reading.

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Seen that? - Keeping Online Daters Honest

Filed in archive Best of on May 9, 2010

Keeping Online Daters Honest The Dating Weblog

Seen that? - Keeping Online Daters Honest
WIRED -- Apr 1 -- TrueDater, not to be confused with True.com, is a database of reviews written by people who met through online personals. The goal here is not to rate (or berate) the person, but to compare how he or she matched the profile that got your attention. Does she look like her pictures? Is he really 6 feet tall? Currently, you can read and submit reviews for members of Match.com, JDate and [...] Read More


TrueDater.com: Online Daters Most Likely to Misrepresent Weight and Physical Appearance in Profiles The Dating Weblog

BUSINESS WIRE --Apr 26 -- TrueDaterprovides online daters with the ability to read or review the truthfulness of people's dating profiles. Users were asked what qualities online daters exaggerate or lie about most often. Choices were: height, weight, age, income, marital status, physical appearance and other. Male voters ranked...1. weight 45%, 2. physical appearance 20%, 3. Marital status 13%. Female voters...1. general physical appearance 36%, 2. weight 19%, 3. age 16% FULL ARTICLE @ YAHOO Mark Brooks: Truedater [...] Read More


Online Daters Report Positive Connections The Dating Weblog

USA TODAY -- Mar 5 -- An estimated 16 million Americans have used a dating site or other site to meet people, the Pew Research Center reports; 45% of these have never been married. 79% say online dating is a "good way to meet people", 52% say the experience was mostly positive, 29% say it was mostly negative. 24.6 million people visited personals sites in January, comScore Media Metrix says. [...] Read More


Private Online Dating The Social Networking Weblog

Spark Bliss is a little different than other dating sites. They let you add your connections right from your online email address book. Then you can invite your friends to join with you. If you think one of your friends is a good match for another one of your friends you can hook them up by introducing them through Spark Bliss. If one of your friends thing you're right for [...] Read More


Google, on the go for online dating... The Search Engine Weblog

What would first pop up in your mind when you find out that Google is planning to cater to online dating? Perhaps, you will think that it is just another trick next to that April fool's day publicity. A deja vu or a joke, you might add. According to Jeremy Palmer, recognized as a Commission Junction Performer, "It appears like Google is scraping profiles from websites like LoveAccess.com, Date.com, and other [...] Read More

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Plenty of Fish, Match.com Hiss and Spit at Each Other Over Stats

Filed in archive Dating Sites on April 30, 2010

Plenty of Fish, Match.com Hiss and Spit at Each Other Over Stats
© Rob Inh00d

Plenty of Fish is now the leading dating site on the web (according to Plenty of Fish). The response from Match.com (which also claims to be the leading dating site on the Web)? Something like "Liar, liar, pants on fire!"

I'm inclined to believe Markus at Plenty of Fish - partly because he posts stats from comScores, Inc., and partly because (as he points out) Match.com has a history of playing fast and loose with numbers, anyway.

The numbers from comScores are interesting. Plenty of Fish sees about twice as many visitors a day as Match.com - 1.2 million for POF to 680 thousand a day for Match.

The hissing and spitting (most of it coming from Match, which is used to being able to say that it's top dog) will be interesting to watch, if it continues. Simple question: Is the era of paid dating sites coming to a close?

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Seen that? - Matchmaker, Matchmaker... Make Me a Match

Filed in archive Best of on April 21, 2010

Matchmaker, Matchmaker... Make Me a Match The Dating Weblog

Seen that? - Matchmaker, Matchmaker... Make Me a Match
INSIDE BAY AREA -- Mar 27 -- In Judaism, old-timers will remind you that arranging three marriages reserves your spot in heaven. Matchmakers have seen a jump in clientele from the baby boomer generation. They find out who you are, what you want, screen matches and present you potential mates. All for the cost of an arm and a leg. Fees range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. "You pay any which way," says [...] Read More


Online Dating or a Professional Matchmaker? Some Pros and Cons The Dating Weblog

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I came across an article recently at Suite 101 that compared the pros and cons of online dating services to the pros and cons of a professional matchmaker's services. And (like most things in life) it kind of depends on who you are.

One of the benefits of a matchmaker (according to the piece) is that a professional matchmaker can specialize in a religion or ethnic group. Sure, there are [...] Read More


Matchmaker Looks to Cash in on Population Woes The Dating Weblog

JAPAN TIMES -- July 15 -- For the government, the declining birthrate and delayed marriages are big headaches. Jim Safka, CEO of Match satetd, "Solutions we provide are a perfect fit with the social changes we are trying to counteract in Japan," said Safka, who was in Japan for four-day visit through Saturday. Match.com has 15 million members from 240 countries. In 2002, it entered Japan, where it claims 710,000 members. The total [...] Read More


MatchTalk Makes Anonymous VoIP Dating Possible The VoIP Weblog

Dating is a stepping stone of any relationship and if this hurdle is crossed then no body can stop your love life from blossoming. At times it happens that you come across some pretty lady and in case you manage to have a chat and like her you would like to take things further. You might get her number but it may happen that she gave you a fake one [...] Read More


The Match Eagle Par Birdie

The Par 3, 15th at Cypress Point. Courtesy: caddybytes.com Tuesday, January 10th, 1956. It's the week of bing crosby's annual Clambake, well before the days when Crosby's famous tournament was televised. Just another Tuesday in a California winter. Not even a date especially noteworthy historically. Unless you love the game of golf. At 10 AM that morning, January 10th, a Tuesday, arguably the four finest golfers in America at the time teed it [...] Read More

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Video Personals: What's the Hold Up?

Filed in archive Trends on April 12, 2010

Why aren't there more video personals?

Dating Insider took a look at video personals recently. The first hold up seems editorial in nature. How would dating sites monitor what you put in your videos? They don't really trust you (and that's probably a good thing). When you type content and publish it in words, the computer can do the editing. Some crowd sourcing takes place ("flag this article as obnoxiously inappropriate..."). Of course, eventually it will become cost effective for dating sites to use speech-to-text software to simply convert what you say in a video into text. Then the same software that scans what you write for offensive language can scan your videos for offensive language. They'll start out simply deleting your whole video, but then they'll move to cutting the unacceptable parts of it.

The question then becomes, how comfortable are users themselves with video. My guess is that many people are, and many people aren't. But time will change that balance...

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